Alright, I think that I am ready to review this excellent game, yes excellent game, you did read that right!
Currently I have 58 hours under my belt, and I am training 2 - 5 hours every day to drive better and better.
As I take this thing very seriously as a competitive person and car enthusiastic.
Okay, I do not know what is the issue for many with this game. Were there some problems at launch or something? or whatever. I came here from forza horizon 5. Ez clap arcade racing game I had alot of fun there.
But I have always wanted to race more seriously, but Have been having trouble with that.
At first I did play this game wrong, I must say, I had way too many '' helpers '' enabled, and was afraid to turn them off.
Game did not feel so good then and I left it.
But I did return here 3 weeks ago and ever since I have been playing this pretty much daily. I ended up removing all '' helpers '' one by one and my god it was the right choice to make, I am actually proud about myself.
Suddenly the game turned out to be pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ intensive, like real world carsport actually is. I ended up disabling absolutely everything, no abs, no driving lines, no braking lines, no whatever it is, slippery disabler or whatever. Simulation steering on etc. etc. Only thing I have helping me anymore, is automatic transmission that I am planning to turn off as I am ready for that.
Training to be ready for online someday. And every time I turn this game on to have practice session since, has been joyful.
The cars feel excellent, immersion is top notch, I could keep on listing all the immersive things this game has, every single detail is top notch, your car changes with you as you play, it starts to look different, feel different sound different.
The experience system is excellent choice in this game by the devs, it actually gives you reason to learn and play your cars.
Some '' walletwarriors '' may think different as they cant get everything in their cars right away, but for me this is a astounding blessing and I enjoy my journey with every single car I pay atenttion to.
Graphics are great, very great. But the most important thing is how these unique cars all feel and sound like at the tracks, they are all unique and fun to use. Long races are so immersive as day changes to night and vise versa, your car gets dirty and your vision worsens inside your car. I play with cockpit vision. This game has saved my videogame playing. I have gotten so fed up with all other games. But this. This is something I do every day to train and every single time I open the game now, I can expect great time.
Also, the AI in this game is very, very very excellent, from what I have heard from other sim racers. In single player you have so much to do. You can actually PLAY this sim racer alone solo, like back in good days. You do not need to rely on online gaming ( yet to test it actually, as I want to train more ) But yes, everything disabled and put to sim settings, I run AI level 3 from 10. Planning to up it to 4 soon.
No rubber banding, AI is challenging and you have pretty much endless skill training level with all those difficulty modifiers with that I can imagine. AI can do nasty stuff sometimes and you can get that '' online feeling '' even when doing single player. BUT well, the AI gets punished by the rules, as do you : D if that helps you, as it should.
I am very thankful from this game, it has been a great purchase, but first I had to put everything to sim settings and actually get out of my comfort zone and learn to handle these cars without helpers. Now This is a videogame.
I enjoy this so much more currently than I did forza horizon 5, even though it is a great game also, but here.
Here I can feel improving and proud of myself, everytime I train and develop as a driver.
Technical side? never ever has this game had anykind of technical issues with me, it has been running like a charm, no problems at all. But well, Ryzen 9 7950x3D & RX 7900 XTX machine may help, but still no technical issues at all, even with everything at ultra, good optimization, diamond smooth framerate no matter what kind of crapfest is happening at the screen with storm. Doesn't use my machine too much still.
Thank you Turn 10 from the game, please don't abandon MotorSport series.